Boer, Lianne J.M (LL.M)

8 March 2017

Lianne Boer is Assistant Professor of Public International Law at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Politics of Transnational Law. Following a BSc in Political Science at Radboud University, she graduated cum laude from the Law and Politics of International Security Master’s programme at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2008. Subsequently, she worked at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (internship, 2008), at the Dutch Parliament (2009-2010) and as a consultant for PwC (2011). In November 2011, she started her PhD at VU. She was a visiting scholar at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law in Cambridge (UK), and at the Law Faculty of Lund University, Sweden. Currently, she teaches Public International Law (LL.B and LL.M) and Politics of International Law (LL.M). Ongoing research projects include an edited volume together with Sofia Stolk, provisionally titled "Illuminating the Backstage of Transnational Legal Practice", as well as a piece on the use of verbs to assign agency to international law.